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Rendering of CS Energy's 200MWh Chincilla BESS project, announced by the state-owned group earlier this year. Image: CS Energy.

Australia: Queensland grid secures new battery discharge record

April 4, 2025
Queensland achieved a new battery discharge record on 30 March 2025, with a maximum instantaneous battery discharge of 474.1MW at 17:55.
Anthony Albanese (pictured) and the Labor Party have taken on board the need for storage in making clean energy dispatchable, Dr Bruce Mountain said. Image: Anthony Albanese's office via Twitter.

Australia’s federal election: a shift in policy could cause ‘chaos and delay’

April 3, 2025
With Australia’s federal election set for 3 May 2025, Energy-Storage.news delves into how energy storage could be impacted.
Image: Allegro Energy.

Australia’s Allegro Energy reveals ‘promising’ redox flow battery ahead of Eraring trial

April 1, 2025
Allegro Energy has revealed what it claims is Australia’s first locally manufactured microemulsion flow battery (MeFB) suited for LDES.
Image: Solar Media.

What will join lithium-ion on the energy storage podium?

March 27, 2025
Mark Croudace, executive representative of the LDES Council, questioned what technologies will join lithium-ion on the energy storage podium.
Gentari secured the Maryvale solar-plus-storage site (pictured) as part of its acquisition of Wirsol in 2023. Image: Gentari Renewables.

Gentari picks Fluence’s optimisation platform for 172MW/408MWh hybrid solar-storage project in Australia

March 26, 2025
Fluence will use its AI-powered bidding optimisation software Mosaic to co-optimise Gentari’s 172MW Maryvale solar+BESS site in Australia.
Image: Squadron Energy.

Squadron Energy seeks approval for 1,000MWh BESS in New South Wales, Australia

March 25, 2025
Squadron Energy is seeking approval from the Australian government’s EPBC Act to develop a 1,000MWh BESS in New South Wales.
A rendering of the Calala BESS in Tamworth, New South Wales. Image: Equis.

Equis claims New South Wales’ first merchant BESS debt financing for 500MWh asset

March 25, 2025
Equis Australia claims it has secured New South Wales’ first merchant BESS debt financing for a 500MWh BESS in Australia.
An example of a neighbourhood battery system in West Australia, installed in a trial by Western Power. Image: Western Power.

‘Australia lacks a leader for community batteries,’ says Monash Energy Institute

March 24, 2025
Dr Emi Gui of the Monash Energy Institute believes there’s a void in the market for an entity to drive Australia’s community batteries.
FRV Australia solar plus storage project

Acen Australia sells 100MWh hybrid solar PV and BESS project to FRV Australia

March 24, 2025
Acen Australia has sold a 50MW/100MWh 2-hour duration hybrid solar PV and BESS project to developer FRV Australia.
Image: Solar Media.

NSW’s ‘staggering’ BESS pipeline, ‘small but mighty Tasmania’ and Australia’s home for utility-scale energy storage

March 20, 2025
NSW’s BESS pipeline, PHES in Tasmania and the ‘home of utility-scale storage’ were discussed at the Energy Storage Summit Australia 2025.

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